What are the different types of IT security?

Every system has sensitive and important information that if other people can access, all users and the system may have big problems; ultimately,  IT security  is considered as an important factor, IT is a set of steps taken to protect important and sensitive information to keep hackers away from all information and prevent such people from accessing a system's information.

Each security is closely related to each other, which makes some people mix these securities up, for example, some may think that IT guard and cybersecurity are the same things, which is not a true thought, IT security covers all available information, whether it is electronically or physically, which makes it different from cybersecurity, which mostly involves actions that are against the rules and are done entirely through the Internet, and ultimately have very bad effects on systems, although, there are differences between the two security measures, except for a few numbers of them, they are very similar to each other as well as the activities of the two departments.

What are the types of IT Security?

In general, each security specialist considers a different category for  IT security; here, we are going to mention the categories that are most specialized by security experts.

1- Network protection:

Network shield  includes all steps taken to protect systems and all information in it from illegal access by individuals; therefore, if all the points in network security are made correctly, a secure and safe platform will be created for users; there are different ways to establish network security that first, you need to pay attention to the configuration of the system and check all the steps properly, for example, you can use the available tools and check that whether there is a problem with your system or not through them, and then fix any probable problem.

In the following section, we are going to mention some of the methods that are being used to establish this security:

- Using the NIST cybersecurity framework

- Two-factor authentication

- End-to-end encryption

-....

In general, you should do a series of activities to  increase the protection  of your network. To achieve your goal in all activities, you have to take the following three principles into consideration:

- Protection:

As mentioned, you should pay attention to the structure of your system and make sure that it is safe and secure.

- Find problems quickly:

We have already mentioned that you can use the available tools to recognize the problems in the system and fix them as soon as possible. You should be able to tell if the system configuration has changed, or some network traffic indicates a problem or if it's abnormal.

- Respond as fast as possible:

Troubleshooting should be done as quickly as possible.

2- End-Point Security:

When different devices are connected to a system, many ways are created for hackers to infiltrate the main system and compromise their security of them; when the number of devices connected to the system increases, the number of hackers entering the system increases as well; End-Point  Security  is a method used to secure existing information accessed by various devices End-Point Security creates a large level of uniform stake in the system, which can be done in a variety of ways that can be used to detect the infiltration of different systems, correct and moral encryption for the entry of devices that company uses, controlling every single event that takes place, etc., all of which ultimately lead to network security, also if you make an update to improve the security of the site, this update will be transferred to all devices connected to the main system.

3- Internet Security:

Internet security  is of great importance, and today most people pay a lot of attention to this part to make their system secure to be able to  increase security  as much as possible; this kind of security includes browser and web network security.

In the world of the Internet, a lot of information is transferring to the system or out of it every day, which is an opportunity for hackers to abuse the process of transmitting, and eventually problems cause lots of problems, to  increase the deposit  of information while transmitting as much as possible, you have to take various steps, one of which is encrypting the information correctly so that hackers cannot easily achieve what they want, this is why the SSL certification is provided by website owners, so this certificate is provided to make sure that the information transmitting from the site is encrypted and to make the process harder for hackers, websites which use this certificate will have a small lock icon and HTTPS next to their site address, which indicates that this site cares about its security and is trying to follow all the necessary principles to  increase the safety of the site.

4- Cloud computing security:

Cloud computing security  or cloud security includes a wide range of measures that are taken to establish more network security. In fact, servers have to protect themselves, and to do that; they can use cloud protection. In this type of guard, all traffic reaches the cloud, and after being analyzed, it is finally verified and transferred to the server, but if the traffic transferred to the cloud is not approved, it will not be transferred to the server by using this type of security, the level of security of the site increases dramatically because cloud services can examine the existing traffic from more complex aspects and can establish a deposit for the system more accurately.

5- Application protection:

If  the software has security holes, it can end up causing a lot of damage to the security of sites. Application security can help  software designers  minimize the safety holes in the software, so it will minimize the access to the system by hackers as well; by using this kind of shield, every software is encrypted while designed to minimize the possibility of any attacks.

To implement each of these types of network security separately, there are different strategies that vary according to the available financial resources and also, depending on the extent of the system, for example, it may be a newly established system that there is no possibility for the owner of it to pay for the protection of the site. Still, at the same time, he/she attach great importance to the shield of its network, on the other hand, there may be a large, high-budget system that wants to implement the security strategies, the strategies that should be done for each one are different from each other. Various steps should be taken for each to achieve their goal; of course, it should be noted that the general principles are the same for both systems and may even be common in some cases.

Establishing network security is more difficult for newly established systems because such systems do not have sufficient facilities to combat possible threats, and if they encounter a problem, they will need more time to resolve the issue so that they can regain lost security, one way that such systems can take into consideration to establish network guarantee is to properly educate everyone who is connected to the system to minimize the possibility of error, in addition to this method, other deposit measures must be taken to prevent hackers from accessing the system as much as possible, it should be noted that large systems certainly face bigger threats, but the capabilities of these systems are more than the small ones, and when a problem occurs, they can solve the problem more quickly, and implement the necessary strategy to  increase the security of the site  again faster.

Last word:

Network protection  and other kinds of it are all so important that by paying attention to each point mentioned in them, you can finally reach a good level of deposit and protect your information from hackers, which we have introduced the types of network security to you to get a little more familiar with it and pay more attention to the strategies contained in it.